E. E. Cummings

Who was E. E. Cummings?

Edward Estlin Cummings, popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century poetry.

Famous Quotes:

• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
• And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love
• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
• America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
• A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
• when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
• It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
• The earth laughs in flowers.
• A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.